Mech. Read what I was really saying there. I do not think being educated nor getting a college degree is a bad thing...not at all.
What pisses me off is that there are women out there who set out to go through the motions of getting those degrees with no intentions of ever using them...THEN TO BRAG THAT THEY'RE GOING TO GET MARRIED INSTEAD and live off their husbands...pop out babies...play tennis...plan birthday parties...when I know damn well that there were other women waiting in line (hard working women/men too) who wanted to get their Education degrees to become teachers to make a living. They had to wait it out a semester...a year...because the College of Ed was very select in it's undergrads getting in. Sometimes people couldn't wait that long and dropped out of the program/college altogether.
I was bothered by this then and now again today seeing that it's still a thing for young women to do.
Also, I think it's also a form or using men. "Tee hee. I'll just get married anyway and live off my husband". Come on! That's terrible!
Furthermore, we're in a era where we wanted to be treated more equal to our male counterparts and this says nothing to me but to be "Mrs. Happy Homemaker back in the 50's"... (Please don't take me wrong all you SAHM's). This is not what I wanted nor had planned when I set foot on campus at FSU in 1985. I wanted to be out there doing something and not back in the stone ages one day serving my husband 24/7.
So, education...getting one is great. Bragging about never using it and possibly taking up space for someone that could use it...what a f'ing waste!!!!
What pisses me off is that there are women out there who set out to go through the motions of getting those degrees with no intentions of ever using them...THEN TO BRAG THAT THEY'RE GOING TO GET MARRIED INSTEAD and live off their husbands...pop out babies...play tennis...plan birthday parties...when I know damn well that there were other women waiting in line (hard working women/men too) who wanted to get their Education degrees to become teachers to make a living. They had to wait it out a semester...a year...because the College of Ed was very select in it's undergrads getting in. Sometimes people couldn't wait that long and dropped out of the program/college altogether.
I was bothered by this then and now again today seeing that it's still a thing for young women to do.
Also, I think it's also a form or using men. "Tee hee. I'll just get married anyway and live off my husband". Come on! That's terrible!
Furthermore, we're in a era where we wanted to be treated more equal to our male counterparts and this says nothing to me but to be "Mrs. Happy Homemaker back in the 50's"... (Please don't take me wrong all you SAHM's). This is not what I wanted nor had planned when I set foot on campus at FSU in 1985. I wanted to be out there doing something and not back in the stone ages one day serving my husband 24/7.
So, education...getting one is great. Bragging about never using it and possibly taking up space for someone that could use it...what a f'ing waste!!!!
Now if you really want to know how I feel on this issue...ask me later or PM me. I can stop giving you the cliffnoted version and spell it out for you. :P
Still lots of women going for their MRS.
Also, I had a friend in an exclusive gym in DC and a lot of women only joined for more gold digging.
Also, I had a friend in an exclusive gym in DC and a lot of women only joined for more gold digging.
There's something wrong about this...very wrong.
I call them the Queen of Diamonds!
I call them the Queen of Diamonds!
First of all I want to add it took me a long time to get my Master's in Public Administration. Secondly I was very fortunate my class was full of people who had been in the work force for many years so we had lots to share. Last when we got back to work, we went back to work without the neon signs flashing out our new degrees.
Now, about those brandi-new MBA's who think the world revolves around them... I want to tell you something an older and wiser Sergeant told me many years ago:
"Lieutenant, you will become indispensible to this organization the day you can put your finger in a cup of coffee and leave a dent."
And of course, we all know the joke about the various body parts and who was finally declared "boss".
Now, about those brandi-new MBA's who think the world revolves around them... I want to tell you something an older and wiser Sergeant told me many years ago:
"Lieutenant, you will become indispensible to this organization the day you can put your finger in a cup of coffee and leave a dent."
And of course, we all know the joke about the various body parts and who was finally declared "boss".
my husband nearly has a stroke every year when the wall street "anal-lists" come in and make their 22-yo predictions on his company's solvency and forecasts. he's been there 23 years, these kids have been there two days but they do the forecast...and they shop at talbots too. he loathes them. i'll have to tell him to stop looking at their buttons before HE loses an eye.
/on to his game
/on to his game
It's the wise Lieutenant who realizes that it's the grizzled old First Sergeant and the Master Sergeant who run the unit. And that listening to them, improves his longevity.
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It looks to me like a degree is mainly a symbol now, much like a high school diploma used to be. Most people I have worked with who have degrees are not doing anything that is related to what their degree is.
I agree it's the sergeants who run the army and they are leaving at an alarming rate because of the way we are treating them.
I agree it's the sergeants who run the army and they are leaving at an alarming rate because of the way we are treating them.
Its amazing the paralells between brandi new 2LTs and bradi new MBAs. They both think they alone have the knowledge to save the world.
Thread sidetrack:
A Staff Sergeant (E-6) I've been working out with for the past few years was recently appointed a 2LT. I told him now that he's a brandy new "Loootenant", I can give him heck. After all, he's one of "us" now. (Sorry Ranger)
Thread sidetrack:
A Staff Sergeant (E-6) I've been working out with for the past few years was recently appointed a 2LT. I told him now that he's a brandy new "Loootenant", I can give him heck. After all, he's one of "us" now. (Sorry Ranger)
So E-6 is Staff Sergeant now? It was SFC when I was in and was three up and two down. They had just done away with the Staff Sergeant term along with three up and one down. E-5 was just three stripes and just Sergeant but some still called themselves Staff. E-7 was 3+3 Master or Top Sergeant. Diamond in the center for 1st Sgt and a star for Sgt. Major or Brigadeer Sgt as we called them. Most of them seemed to know every General in the army by his first name. Seems like over the years they are always screwing around with the enlisted stripes and grades. Sp-4 was called a buzzard sleeve, PFC had one stripe and was a skeeter wing E-2 was no stripe or slick sleeve. Sp-5 had a rocker (umbrella) over the top of the buzzard to help keep off the chicken sh*t. Sp-6 had 2 over the top and Sp-7 had 3.
From what I see today it looks like the army is full of Sp-4s don't see any Sp-5,6 or 7s. Do they all get hard stripes after Sp-4? In my day a damn corporal theoretically outranked all specialist grades but they probably wouldn't want to try to pull rank on a Sp-6 or7.
From what I see today it looks like the army is full of Sp-4s don't see any Sp-5,6 or 7s. Do they all get hard stripes after Sp-4? In my day a damn corporal theoretically outranked all specialist grades but they probably wouldn't want to try to pull rank on a Sp-6 or7.
I've been in the work force (as a professional) for 16 years now, the last six in management.
I want to get my MBA. There are certain areas that I am weak in, and I know exactly what I want to learn. It's more for my own personal and professional growth than just the letters.
I want to get my MBA. There are certain areas that I am weak in, and I know exactly what I want to learn. It's more for my own personal and professional growth than just the letters.
I don't think people are disparaging those who have MBAs. They are disparaging MBAs with absolutely zippo real world/work experience who think they are some sort of minor god like figure.
Even with experience, I would consider studying for an MBA if I had the money and the time. Good luck in your endeavors. I hope you do get your MBA
Even with experience, I would consider studying for an MBA if I had the money and the time. Good luck in your endeavors. I hope you do get your MBA
I think anyone, whether it be with a degree or not, with a Master's, PHD, MD, DDS, MDIV--yadda yadda that carries the above attitude is not going to be popular anywhere.
And anytime an individual carries a degree and they believe that it confers upon them some superior status to the common folk who don't have degrees--that's when I get really upset.
I know a$$holes with degrees and I know a$$holes without degrees. Know what? They both need to learn some humility.
And anytime an individual carries a degree and they believe that it confers upon them some superior status to the common folk who don't have degrees--that's when I get really upset.
I know a$$holes with degrees and I know a$$holes without degrees. Know what? They both need to learn some humility.
How about a diploma from one of those VCR repair schools they used to advertise all the time on TV? I think that would be pretty useless now. I have a whole bunch of diplomas from the Magnavox tech school in the Meadowlands NJ. They all cost me several hundred dollars plus $90/night motel room for a week.Plus the loss of business while I was gone. DVD repair: A year later at the camera repair class the instructor recognized most of us from the DVD class and asked how much DVD repair we did. Most of us fixed one to learn they were not worth working on. Same thing after the camera repair class. The rear projo TVs were worse because you had to buy all 5 or 6 $500 wholesale modules for each TV you were going to work on before going to the customers house. Each manufacturer had a half dozen models and they changed every year. Most modules did not fit any other TV than the one they came in. I ended up with about $20,000 of worthless unsold inventory out of that fiasco. Most us quit attempting to service those after a year or two. Most everything built after 1980 became too cheap to service within a year.